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Mr Oscar Hills talks [sound recording] / [recorded by Norm O'Connor and Wendy Lowenstein]
Bib ID 2635472
Format AudioAudio [sound recording]
Author
Hills, Oscar, Interviewee
 
Access Conditions Open access. 
Description 1967 May 18 
1 tape reel (ca. 71 min. 45 sec.): analog, 1 7/8 ips, half track mono ; 5 in. 
Series

Norm O'Connor folklore collection

Summary

1. Mr Oscar Hills (?), conversation : shows convict irons & other old objects, pit-sawing timber, bicycles, racing penny-farthing bicycles, bushrangers, stone houses, brick-making, wood-cutting around Queenstown, dances, tin whistle band, circus, shearing, the Shearers' Union, bush cooking, working with horses and bullocks as a child, free land grants, the Ross Bridge, convicts and bushrangers, Tasmanian Tigers.=520 \\ Folkloric recording.

Notes

Conversation only.

Lending copy: 2 cassettes.

Part of a collection of recordings and related material collected during the 1950s and 1960s by Norm O'Connor, Pat O'Connor and others for the Folk Lore Society of Victoria.

Preservation, working duplicate and cassette copies made.

Speed of recording varies from 15/­16 to 1 7/­8 ips. Quality of recording is poor.

Recorded in Campbelltown, Tas., on May 18, 1967.

Subjects Folklore - Australia.  |  Tasmania - History - Anecdotes.
Other authors/contributors Lowenstein, Wendy, 1927-2006, Interviewer  |  O'Connor, Norman, Interviewer  |  Folk Lore Society of Victoria

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